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Most counties to be exempt from GDP evaluation

By Zheng Yangpeng | China Daily | Updated: 2013-11-29 07:45

About half of China's cities and counties will no longer judged by their Gross Domestic Products performance, according to a senior official, which marks a major step by the country toward a more balanced and sustainable development model.

Yang Weimin, deputy head of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Finance and Economic Affairs, said at a Beijing forum Thursday that the nation's "ecologically vulnerable zones" and "key poverty counties" will be exempt from GDP evaluation next year.

His projection was based on a statement in the recently released reform roadmap after the Communist Party of China's Third Plenum, exempting the "limited development zones" and "key poverty counties" from years of GDP scrutiny.

Most counties to be exempt from GDP evaluation

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